Brightcove Player Pre-releases v6.56.0

The Brightcove Player 6.56.0 is available for early access and testing. Notable changes since 6.55.0 include:

• Update to Video.js v7.13.1. Notable changes:
  • Add normalizeAutoplay option to treat autoplay: true as autoplay: "play"
  • Add helper classes for 9:16 and 1:1 aspect ratio videos
• Update to Video.js HTTP Streaming v2.9.0. Notable changes:
  • Add an option to override label for 608 and 708 captions
  • do a fast rendition change on fullscreen changes and user actions, see note below
  • Add option to limit how many times the playback engine retries on playlist request errors
• Fix issues with thumbnails and playlists

Rendition changes

As of this release, whenever a user selects a particular rendition via a rendition picker or when switching to or out of fullscreen, the buffer is cleared to switch to the new rendition immediately. This will improve viewer experience as we will immediately switch up to a higher rendition when the view goes fullscreen.

Internet Explorer Support Update

As of this pre-release, Brightcove is no longer actively supporting Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on any version of Windows. This was announced with the Brightcove Player 6.52.1 release.

Related bug reports and enhancement requests will not be accepted after this date. While we will not intentionally remove IE11 support in any version of Brightcove Player 6.x, we will not be actively testing against it either.

Customers requiring support for IE11 may wish to lock their player to this version. Note that locked players no longer receive new enhancements or bug fixes.

Edge is the recommended Microsoft browser and is fully supported by the Brightcove team.